@haileypeckart

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The Humanity of Light and Color

My paintings are a direct response to the lack of control I've had over my feelings and emotions. My mission was to rediscover the color red and how it can be utilized in a composition without overpowering. Just like my emotions, I wonder how I can control an alarming experience such as the color red? By using photos of family members and fishing trips to ground myself, I have created spaces of experimentation and expression allowing myself to enter deep thought and self reflection. I hope to share a glimpse of how I see and feel color with the viewer.

Bio

Hailey Peck is a painter from Syracuse, New York and is currently based in Portland, Maine. Peck will be receiving her Bachelors of Fine Arts from Maine College of Art & Design in May of 2023. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at MECA&D and The Buoy Gallery in Kittery, ME.

Peck's work focuses on large figure painting and abstraction pieces. She works with oil paint, pastels and colored pencil. From a young age Peck has always flourished in various styles of art like dance, music, and photography, but became most interested in painting towards the end of highschool. She finds a way to use painting as a process of therapy and control. She focuses on family members and friends as a main inspiration for her paintings and enjoys painting her cats.